EPISODE · Feb 2, 2022 · 18 MIN
Mexico's murdered journalists
from Headlines From The Times · host Patrick J. McDonnell, Gustavo Arellano, Denise Guerra, Shannon Lin, Kasia Broussalian, Melissa Kaplan, Ashlea Brown, Angel Carreras, Mario Diaz, Kinsee Morlan, Jazmín Aguilera, Shani O. Hilton
Mexico trails just Syria and Iraq as the deadliest country in the world to be a journalist. That’s according to data collected from 2000 through 2022 by the Committee to Protect Journalists. And the Mexican government has done little to stop it.But in the wake of the murder of four reporters so far this year — José Luis Gamboa, Margarito Martínez Esquivel, Lourdes Maldonado López and Roberto Toledo — Mexican journalists are openly criticizing President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador and government officials like never before.More reading:Journalists throughout Mexico say enough to killings and crimes against pressPhotojournalist shot to death outside his home in TijuanaShe told Mexico’s president she feared for her life. Then she was killed
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Mexico was already one of the deadliest countries in the world to be a journalist. Then three reporters were assassinated in January.
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